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- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The chequebook is going, one way or the other.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is raising the alternative and the consequence, and I take his point.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy ran away from it.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I will return to the Deputy's central charge. Yes, the Government commissioned the ESRI to conduct a study on the implications of funding in respect of a particular model of universal health insurance.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes. Is anybody infallible? Deputy Martin denied all responsibility for reports commissioned. I accept the report of the ESRI-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and the Government will not continue with that particular universal health insurance funding model.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The author of the report pointed out, as we know and as the Minister conveyed to the Government, that there are other models of multi-payer insurance funds that can be examined, and will be examined now.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: In the meantime, we have the challenge of reform and structural changes ranging from hospital groups to money follows the patient and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Yes, there are waiting lists-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and there is the question of trolleys, the fair deal and the medical cards. All of these matters will have to be dealt with in any event in respect of whatever alternative funding model is put in place.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's model is to increase tax and continue with an inefficient two-tier system.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Ours is universal health care funded by universal health insurance, a particular form of money. I reject the Deputy's assertions.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Notorious?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has raised perfectly legitimate questions on health over the years in this Chamber. Many of those questions relate to the inefficiency of a two-tier health system. The Government's view and commitment is to end the two-tier health system, and its commitment is to have a funding model through universal health insurance to pay for that. The Government put forward a particular...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's and other Deputies' constituents are entitled to a universal health care system that delivers medical attention based on their medical needs-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----as distinct from their salaries, incomes or what they have in their pockets. The way to do that is to put in place all of the building blocks required to restructure a health system that clearly has inefficiencies. There have been problems in respect of medical cards, the fair deal, waiting lists, trolleys and particular cases that arise from time to time.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: The Government has moved on reform in respect of children under six years of age and people over 70, removing children from the Department of Health by creating the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, dealing with the stabilisation of the private health insurance market and in many other areas where good things are happening throughout the health system. Clearly, however, there are...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am not sure who the Deputy's poet is, but he could do better than that. The Deputy asks me to resign every couple of months.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: I presume Deputy Adams is trying to drive his point home.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Enda Kenny: In the spring of 2016 I will leave this chair, go to Áras an Uachtaráin and ask the President to dissolve the Dáil. I will be happy to contest throughout the country on the mandate the people gave us to fix our public finances and to put the country back to work.